Bug 136976

Summary:	execution using ssh fails with "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	james
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	barryn
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Description james 2004-10-24 16:51:55 UTC

Description of problem:
execution with ssh fails with "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-soundcard-1.2.10-1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes
2. execute using ssh on local or remote system:
 #ssh <host> /usr/share/system-config-soundcard/system-config-soundcard
3.
  
Actual results:
On local system, there is:
 X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode:  20
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x106
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  2
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x8c
...

Ending, on both local and remote machines, with:
 The program 'system-config-soundcard.py' received an X Window System 
error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 64 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers:...


Expected results:

 soundcard detection window...

Additional info:
This may or may not be related to ssh.  For instance,
 #ssh <remote> xcalc
will work ok, but
 #ssh <remote>
 ...
 #xcalc
fails with 
 Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
 Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
 Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0

Other "/usr/share/system-config-*" programs fail similarly.

Comment 1 Barry K. Nathan 2004-10-25 01:23:37 UTC

For now, you can avoid this problem by using ssh's -Y option.

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2004-10-25 08:36:28 UTC

" Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0"
This means that the problem is with your ssh/X setup, not with
system-config-soundcard.

Comment 3 Benjamin S. Scarlet 2004-11-22 20:26:25 UTC

I get a similar failure whenever running ediff in emacs over ssh.

local$ ssh <remote>
remote$ xterm
... (xterm works, no DISPLAY problems)
remote$ emacs
... (emacs works)
in emacs, M-x ediff-buffers
emacs dies every time with a BadWindow

Adding -Y to the ssh flags does not help.

Comment 4 Benjamin S. Scarlet 2004-11-22 20:30:34 UTC

(sorry, left off config info)
I'm running Fedora Core 3 on i386, with everything up to date. The
details of the emacs don't seem to matter. If I <remote> is localhost,
I get the problem. If I don't ssh, but run emacs locally, it works. If
I ssh from Fedora Core 2, the ediff works. If I ssh to a completely
different platform, the emacs still dies.

Comment 5 Bill Petersen 2004-11-30 19:15:57 UTC

This is critical for me.  It worked fine with FC2, but started failing
as soon as I installed FC-3 (not upgrade, but fresh install).

ssh -X to machine
run nessus 

after a few mouse movements, the Nessus/ssh session dies
with the following message.

Nessus is critical to me, and so I must have a fix soon or I will
be forced to revert back to FC-2 to do my job.

# The program 'nessus' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 3258 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
function.)

Comment 6 Mike Nuss 2005-01-04 18:57:51 UTC

I have the same problem with just about every application. If I use
ssh X forwarding and try to run an app, it crashes with a BadWindow error.

Comment 7 Tomas Mraz 2005-01-31 20:50:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137685 ***

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:06:36 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.